Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Conception Bay South, 54% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.2, with women at 82.1 and men at 78.2. Measured from where Conception Bay South’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 17 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Conception Bay South is C+, #7 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,198 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Conception Bay South
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Conception Bay South’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.6 on the deprivation index typically live 82.2 years; Conception Bay South’s region, at 80.2, falls short. For its deprivation ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Conception Bay South, a child can expect 1.3 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (8.5%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Conception Bay South grades C+ for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged. Its place: #7 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,198 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
From Conception Bay South, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Conception Bay South’s own, not the region’s.
From Conception Bay South that is further than the 8.5 km of the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
The region lives 2.0 years less than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Conception Bay South’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.6, the expected figure is 82.2 years, and Conception Bay South’s region falls below with 80.2. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 81.7 years in the middle.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Regional life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador: the lowest figure is 77.1, 3.1 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Conception Bay South’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.5% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Fewer adults report obesity than across Newfoundland and Labrador: 36%, the province 42%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
More people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 54% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 54% in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 21% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Conception Bay South comes 40th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 28,353 to 31,166 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montagne QC A | 28,569 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Marie-Victorin QC A | 28,904 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 38 | Portobello South ON A | 29,960 | 13 km | 56% |
| 39 | Rockland ON C | 30,375 | 15 km | 49% |
| 40 | Conception Bay South NL C+ | 29,725 | 17 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Conception Bay South
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conception Bay South | 17 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Paradise 9.5 km | 9.8 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Mount Pearl 13 km | 5.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview 15 km | 29 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 15 km | 8.6 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Wabana 16 km | 0.9 km | 44% | 78.6 | C− |
| Holyrood 16 km | 31 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview’s life expectancy is 78.6, this region’s 80.2. Wabana is the closest to care, 0.9 km to Conception Bay South’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Conception Bay South shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Conception Bay South
How is Conception Bay South’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Conception Bay South has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Conception Bay South from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Conception Bay South is 42 km from a clinic and 2.3 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Conception Bay South?
There is no figure for Conception Bay South alone; its health region’s is 82.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Conception Bay South?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).